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dictatorship
English
Etymology
dictator +? -ship
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?k?te?t?(?)??p/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d?kte?t????p/
Noun
dictatorship (plural dictatorships)
- A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
- A government which exercises autocratic rule.
- Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.
Synonyms
- autocracy
- dictatorialism
Derived terms
Translations
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dictator
English
Alternative forms
- dictatour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin dict?tor (“a chief magistrate”), from dict? (“dictate, prescribe”), from d?c? (“say, speak”).
Surface analysis is dictate +? -or “one who dictates”.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?k?te?t?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d?kte?t??/
Noun
dictator (plural dictators)
- A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
- (historical) A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.
- A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
- A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk).
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Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dict?tor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?k?ta?.t?r/
- Hyphenation: dic?ta?tor
- Rhymes: -a?t?r
Noun
dictator m (plural dictatoren or dictators, diminutive dictatortje n)
- dictator (tyrant, despot)
- Synonyms: despoot, dwingeland, tiran
- (historical) dictator (Roman magistrate with expanded powers)
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Latin
Etymology
From dict? (“I dictate”) +? -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dik?ta?.tor/, [d??k?t?ä?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dik?ta.tor/, [d?ik?t???t??r]
Noun
dict?tor m (genitive dict?t?ris); third declension
- an elected chief magistrate
- one who dictates.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
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Descendants
References
- dictator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dictator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dictator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- dictator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- dictator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dictator in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dictateur, Latin dict?tor.
Noun
dictator m (plural dictatori)
- dictator
Related terms
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